Pandora TV (판도라TV) was a
video sharing website that hosted
user-generated content. Founded in October 2004, Pandora TV is the first video sharing website in the world to attach advertisement to user-submitted video clips and to provide unlimited storage space for users to upload. The operating company, Pandora TV Co., Ltd., has its headquarters in the Seoul-Gangnam Building in
Yeoksam-dong,
Gangnam-gu,
Seoul.[2][3]
In 2007, it was the fastest growing website in South Korea.[4] In 2008, it was the largest video sharing website in South Korea, and it had 3.6 million members. At the time, it had 35% of the Korean marketshare for video sharing sites.[5]
The site was available in Korean, and after April 2008, in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
Pandora TV raised over $16 million from
Silicon Valleyventure capital firms -
Altos Ventures and
DCM - in two consecutive funding rounds 2006 and 2007, which represents the largest foreign investment made so far on any Korean Internet start-up.[6]
On January 31, 2023, Pandora TV ended its service.[7]
^Jung Min-kyung (December 19, 2022).
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